Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the 15 years that have passed since our organization first petitioned the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to ...
The gravesite in Danny Smith’s vast and verdant yard is shaded by hulking trees. His parents’ graves are adjacent and marked by a massive headstone. In summer, crickets chirp, birds sing, and leaves ...
Coal miner Scott Tiller works next to a drill in an underground coal mine roughly 40-inches-high in Welch, West Virginia. May 11, 2016. (Photo by: Scott Tiller, AP Images). This story originally ...
A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust, silica and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR During the 15 years that ...